If the date of the JAR file is more recent that the date of the prospective contents (the image in this case), Ant will not recreate the JAR file, even though you changed the build.xml to build the JAR differently. You will need to delete the JAR file and run Ant again. Hopefully your 'clean' target will do that.

Peter Johnson wrote:If the date of the JAR file is more recent that the date of the prospective contents (the image in this case), Ant will not recreate the JAR file, even though you changed the build.xml to build the JAR differently. You will need to delete the JAR file and run Ant again. Hopefully your 'clean' target will do that.

thank you for the idea: i'll include a delete jars folder in the clean and make it dependable for jaring